Fashion shows, designers, events.
There are parties in Hollywood and then there are The Parties, and certainly the Sue Wong birthday party, titled from “Mao To Now,” was The Party to attend this spring. Indeed, it was a party to end all parties — if you will — although Wong always find a way to top herself, creatively. From Mao to Now is a reference to the fact that Wong was born in a small Chinese village and then…
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After her house warming celebration which I have written about in a separate article in this magazine, Sue Wong and I had a wide-ranging conversation about Wong’s emergence as a multi-faceted designer with worldwide reach, her three homes, her art collection, and her vision as an artist. Sue, of course, has been an amazing women’s fashion designer for decades and has recently announced that she will spread her wings by expanding her operation into a…
ReadPhoto credit: Walter Tabayoyong. The moon and stars were shining brightly over the 94th Squadron Restaurant in Van Nuys, California on the night of January 21, 2016. An international group of socialites and dignitaries gathered there for an exclusive gala celebrating a collaboration between globally renowned celebrity fashion designer Sue Wong and airline industry innovator and rising star Prestige Private Air. It was an evening of all things luxury, refinement, and charity, and marked the…
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The wine was flowing and the night was full of both mystery and frivolity at the Avant Garde Magazine headquarters, for it was All Hollows Eve or, as is commonly known, Halloween. The occasion was the first annual masquerade ball, Alchemy and Masquerade, given by the magazine in collaboration with internationally renowned fashion designer Sue Wong. (The theme of Ms. Wong’s fashion show this last October was also Alchemy and Masquerade.) The costume theme for…
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The ravenously chic and multitalented Vida Ghaffari is the girl about town in this city of glitter, fashion, and art. Ghaffari provides that key missing ingredient – substance – through her thoughtful journalism and artistic acting endeavors. As a celebrated journalist, the jovial and genial Ghaffari has been active in Los Angeles for over a decade covering subjects as varied as fashion, entertainment, royalty, and human interest, on every beat conceivable from Skid Row to…
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We were in the city of light, Paris, and it certainly was that, a city of light, and magic as well, especially when it comes to Haute Couture. Indeed, we had specifically journeyed to Paris for Haute Couture Week Autumne–Hiver 2015–2016 to join our good friend and colleague, Eleonora De Gray, who is Editor–in–Chief of Runway Magazine in Paris, for as many shows as we could attend. To our delight, Mademoiselle De Gray had secured…
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The social event of the Los Angeles fashion season was the birthday party held by the famous fashion designer Sue Wong for Her Highness Dr. Princess Antonia Schamburg-Lippe. The event was held at Wong’s iconic Hollywood landmark mansion/palazzo, The Cedars, on September 23, 2015. The affair was brilliant and had a radiant cast of characters. Where else in Hollywood can one find such refinement and élan as in Sue Wong’s Café Society? In fact, never…
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Sue Wong, the internationally renowned fashion designer, is, in reality, an “alchemist:” she turns fashion into theater, to the delight of all who view and covet her creations. Her latest fashion show of dazzling designs and majestic headdresses was a scintillating combination of high drama and masquerade, with iconoclastic performances by pop opera singer Michael Peer and HH Prince Mario Max Schaumburg-Lippe to enhance the theme of the presentation. Her show Alchemy and Masquerade Spring…
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The golden girl of the moment, innovative and inspirational fashion designer Sue Wong, received three awards for outstanding humanitarian contributions from the California State Assembly, State Senate, and State Legislature at the “Coming Home with Nick Palance and Friends” charity benefit for social services agency OPCC, held June 28, 2015 at the Casa Del Mar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. “It was indeed a great honor and humbling experience receiving three awards,” said Ms. Wong,…
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On April 25, 2015 La Maison of Sue Wong launched its online boutique, featuring the fashion designs of Sue Wong and her new line of perfume, hand cream, and shower gel products, at an opening party at Sweet! Hollywood at the Art Hearts Fashion boutique. Ms. Wong also had her own line of Chardonnay on hand for the party and it flowed aplenty that night as more than two hundred guests and fans stopped by…
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